Wayne Morrison, I agree with the sentiments of your post. It is something we should all keep in mind; or at least it is something I should keep it in mind. Maybe for New Years I will resolve to to begin using smiley faces . . . nah, I wouldn't want to get carried away.
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In the further interest in full disclosure, and to try to keep the other thread at least somewhat on topic, I am transfering TEPaul's latest comments to me over to here.
David Moriarty:
Regarding your odd and needless post above, no, I did not discuss private emails with Tom MacWood and I did not send him any. So your analysis which is unnecessary on this DG and completely uncalled for too just falls apart right there. It serves no purpose on this DG for you to speculate on or even mention any of this. You should remove that post, it has nothing whatsoever to do with Merion or who designed it, and furthermore none of it is any business of yours anyway.
I found this odd, because I recalled gleaning the information I posted above from one of TEPaul's posts of last night. In fact it was where I got the information I posted above, and also one of the posts that got me thinking about the hypocracy of this all.
But here TEPaul says he did not discuss private emails with Tom MacWood. Did I dream it? Is my post above just strange, blind speculation? Does imy post fall apart based on an unsound assumption? Have I really and truly lost my mind . . . again??Fortunately for my sanity, by chance I had copied TEPaul's post to Mike Cirba on the other thread, as I was considering replying to it. And, by Christmas miracle or modern technology, it was still on my clipboard today. Here it is, with my bolds:
"However, after reading about the possibility of Tom MacWood leaving this site, I frankly feel very down that I may have contributed to that."
Mike:
Don't even think about it. You didn't contribute to that at all. Do you really think anything you said on this thread should've made him leave this site? Why would that be, because you didn't agree with his constant claim that we are all speculating about Wilson and commitee designing Merion? Who did agree with that preposterous claim of his except perhaps David Moriarty? If he left the site for that reason, that's definitely his problem, not yours.
You had nothing to do with it, I did. I told him on the IM I'd send him some emails of some people who emailed me about this thread who don't contribute to this site for their own reasons. I decided not to send them to him and I probably never should've even mentioned them to him. Then instead of asking me on the IM why I didn't send them to him he put the question on this thread with names. That's just not supposed to happen on this website, in my opinion, never, not ever. The IM is there for a good reason and it's not supposed to double as this DG. I immediately asked him on the IM to remove that post and he refused, so I had the post removed. Apparently that's why he decided to leave the site. If that's the way he feels about something like that then that's his problem, in my opinion. If I were you I wouldn't bet much that he won't be back.
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Tommy,
I see no reason to delete this thread. No confidences have been breached here. Those of us who read Tom MacWood's post have not repeated the names in this forum.
We need to get these issues out in the open and get by them, even if it is ugly. And mostly we need to correct the wrongs and get Tom MacWood back.